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An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.